📋 Episode Summary In this spontaneous episode, Emily surprises Marc with a question about 90-day goal planning. What unfolds is a layered conversation about timelines, personal wiring, vision vs. focus, and the often overlooked practice of celebrating accomplishments.

Together, they explore how goal setting and pacing intersect with neurodivergence, business rhythms, and the real-life complexity of working toward big things while juggling many.

They challenge productivity myths, question quarter-based planning, and offer a more compassionate, flexible model for building momentum—one that honors both milestones and maintenance.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• 90-day plans can create urgency and traction—but they're not one-size-fits-all.
• Parallel goals (maintenance + growth) help prevent a "goal cliff" when one big milestone is reached.
• Celebrating accomplishments is just as vital as achieving them.
• Knowing what comes after a goal helps sustain momentum.
• Not all goals are linear or tidy—life often requires juggling priorities, not sequential steps.
• Vision can be zoomed in or out, like turning the dial on a microscope.

🗣 Quote Highlights

"Whenever I go to my favorite stationery store... I feel like I'm at the candy counter again." – Emily "If a goal doesn't have a 'what's next,' it's a cliff." – Emily "I can see it will eventually come together—I've had to work on what I'm doing today to make that happen." – Marc "There's something to the revisiting, to knowing what's next. A goal without a step to step onto is a drop-off." – Emily "Celebrating the accomplishment, not just resetting the horizon, matters too." – Marc "Some people stop when they're winning. But maybe there's momentum that could carry them further." – Marc "I think the 90-day takeaway is that we can set a goal and zoom in and out on it, like twisting a microscope lens." – Emily "What will doing this in the next two weeks allow you to do in the next two months?" – Marc

🧰 Tools & Mentions

• 📖 Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
• 🧁 Penny candy, stationery pens, and Swedish Fish nostalgia
• 🧠 EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), Big Rocks, and Quarterly Goals
• 🛠️ CRM goals, coaching goals, and parallel goal structures
• 💬 "Begin with the end in mind" and "history of the future" frameworks
• 📊 Coaching tip: always help clients define what's next after the goal

👥 Who Should Listen

• Coaches and consultants navigating goal structures with clients
• Entrepreneurs wrestling with time horizons and traction
• People who struggle to revisit or reframe their goals
• Listeners looking for a more personalized alternative to rigid productivity frameworks
• Anyone learning to set big goals and celebrate the small wins

🎺 That Music! Special thanks to Lexi Moreno, Caleb Pitman, and Zoe Czarnecki for the original music. Lexi Moreno – composing / mixing / mastering / guitar Caleb Pitman – composing / mixing / trumpet Zoe Czarnecki – bass